Abstract

Prenatal Ultrasonagraphy (US) is the mainstay modality to diagnose fetal abnormalities especially in early pregnancy. Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a useful tool to confirm and to characterize a pathology that is suspected on US, especially in the detection of central nervous system pathologies.The use of ultrafast imaging tecniques gives additional importantant informations and optimal imaging quality, despite fetal motion, in clinical practice. Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), MR Spetroscopy and Functional studies have potential applications in the fetal brain imaging. Fetal MRI could recognize, in contradistinction to US, the development of fetal brain, the multilayered appearance of the cerebral parenchyma, the timing of sulci development and the myelination. The most common indications for fetal MRI are ventriculomegaly, midline anomalies, malformations of cerebral cortical development, posterior fossa anomalies, suspected haemorraghic-ischemic lesions, tumors. Fetal MRI is a safe and powerful complement to US for clinical management and prognostication.

Autore Pugliese

• Dicuonzo Franca

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• DICUONZO F.;RESTA M.

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2017

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0973-614X

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